She's supposed to be selfish that's what having a slave is fo - okay he knows she doesn't think about it like that and doesn't want to but, still, like, if you were trying to explain why it's good for people to have slaves 'sometimes they are trying to save the entire world and they are worried that they're not allowed to spend even their thoughts on anything they actually want to think about and they need to be sure that some things are theirs even if they are entirely selfish for a while' seems like what you'd come up with, maybe. He thinks that probably she has enough magic to fix it if she messes something up. They could do a time loop, like in one of those stories. She could read him stories about stuff like this, actually, that seems like a good idea.

He's happy because Hagan has a crush on Korva now so the universe is more as it should be.

Oh gosh, does he? How does he know?

Cause he gets all flustered whenever they talk especially if she seems upset or something which she does kind of a lot.

Awww. She's not sure if this is objectively a good thing but it's cute.

It's totally a good thing because now all of them have a him except Valentine. Maybe they could make a him for Valentine.

Making people sounds rather complicated. Maybe they could find a him who doesn't have a her. Maybe a lonely him would be happy about that. She likes to think she's pretty good for him, too.

She is admittedly a little worried that Korva doesn't want a Hagan right now, and probably this will change because they appear to be, like, fated, or whatever, but she isn't especially sure what would change it.

She's very very very good for him. He's so much happier than when he met her. He thinks...Korva has some issues, right, with the worshipping Asmodeus and stuff, and once that's out of the way and she notices that he likes her then probably it'll work out fine with time.

Maybe so. This is kind of a petty reason to kill Asmodeus, but she also has lots of non-petty reasons so maybe it's okay to also have petty ones.

She's so glad she has him. And she is kind of glad that he's her slave, honestly. Like, if he were unhappy about it she would fix it or let him go, and stuff, but it's - really really good knowing that she's allowed to snuggle him whenever she wants and that's okay and she's not doing anything wrong by expecting it.

Yes, right, that's the thing, that's the thing that is good and he's really glad it's good for her too. It'd be dumb and kind of weird if it was good for him and she didn't see any benefits to it.

Asmodeus sounds super terrible and should die for this reason and also because it seems like killing evil gods might come up a lot so she'll need spells for it. But it will help that it will help Korva be happier. Also is she sure Korva doesn't have any crush on Hagan at all she does talk to him more than anyone except her sister. He's been paying attention.

Awww.

She's not sure, no. She thinks Korva likes Hagan? But the regular kind of liking, maybe, not necessarily the kind where you want to snuggle someone all the time, which appears to be how all of the other Imrainais feel about their Connor-people. She's not really an expert on how Korva feels about stuff, though. It's true that she snaps at Hagan less than she snaps at other people. 

Their society seems, like, super weird on the topic of snuggling. Like Hagan was telling the other fairy that he shouldn't snuggle anyone until he was married to her which sounds like a tragically snuggle-deprived life on the whole. Hagan hasn't said anything to him but like, probably he disapproves. And it seems like this would affect how Korva felt about snuggles probably if that's how people where she's from think about it. Though she's not from the same place as him exactly.

Oh, that's all true. Maybe she's just being very guarded, or whatever, that seems like a thing that could happen.

- she's kind of trying not to think about this but does he know that she has looked through a lot of Pathfinder magic item lists and there does not seem to be a single magic item less powerful than a ring of three wishes that lets someone cast waves of ecstasy if they couldn't before. But she can, actually, make unlimited rings of three wishes, although she shouldn't leave them lying around, probably. Also she's not necessarily sure that they should do anything with this information, but, uh, she does, theoretically, have the spell now, and it is kind of hard not to think about having it at all.

Probably not here. On account of they would probably be loud and that would be weird. His alts who think you shouldn't snuggle when unmarried would judge him. But -

- it seems like it might, like, make her happy, and not drift back around to being about all of this nonsense, and that's really important, actually. And it sounds fun.

Yeah, it's probably not a good idea to do it here. Although in theory they could go back to the fairy circle and nobody would actually notice them being gone unless something else blew up - which it could, so probably they shouldn't. Also she should really really think about this more and be more certain about what she actually wants. It's just kind of getting harder to figure that out all the time, as the number of potential life options keeps ballooning out of control.

Yeah that sounds like it might make it harder to know what she wants. But she knows she wants him. - he's not trying to pressure her. Just, like, it seems like it's good that she has him and - he doesn't know how to formulate this thought. He wants her attention and everything to not be weird and stressful and scary and what else could even blow up, there's more healing here now so if the weird Karen does something weird they can handle it -

She has no idea what could blow up, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't.

It is really good that she has him. Just, like, things used to be simpler, right, she had a more sensible model of what you did if you liked someone, and now everything is happening faster than it's supposed to and she's doing a bunch of things that people don't really ever do at all, and - it's hard to know how to do things right if they're not things that people normally do. But she loves him and she just - wants to be really sure she doesn't mess anything up -

Well she can't mess him up. Like, she should be very careful not to mess herself up because she's very important, but he's - he's pretty sure that as long as she did something while trying to do something that'd be good it'll be okay. Really. If he imagines that she accidentally rips his arm off or something that'd just be entirely okay. And he likes being hers, and - anyway she just shouldn't worry about hurting him, it's not going to happen. She should maybe worry about hurting her though.

Eeee. Snuggle.

But yeah, she's kind of unsure about which things are going to hurt her. Which is why she should think more about it, except she doesn't really know if she knows enough to come up with more just from thinking. 

Maybe she should talk to the other Imrainais or something. That sounds kind of awkward but maybe they'll know something.

It seems like the kind of thing that might.

Maybe she'll ask them later, then.

Maybe right now she could read him something?

That sounds nice.

She can summon a book and start reading, then.

Snuggle. Sigh.

"I'm using a magical message to speak to you," a voice says quietly to Cecelia a short time later. "You can answer by whispering. No one else can hear you. This should mean we can't endanger fairies any."

"Who are you?" she whispers.